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This Week in Startups · 2026-08-20 · 21 min · 4,180 words

Taste is the new programming language (w/ Astrocade CEO Amir Sadeghian) | AI Basics

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All right, everybody, welcome back. To AI basics. AI basics. This is where we go over the fundamentals. The basic things that founders need to know. And we do this for legal. Uh we do it for finance, and now we're doing it for AI. You can find all these episodes this week in startups.com slash basics and

AI Basics is brought to you in partnership with our friends at Google Cloud. Really excited about today's guest because we're gonna talk a little bit about how AI is impacting video games with us. Today, Amir Saregin. He is the founder. And CEO of Astrocade.

This is an app that allows you to easily create original video games and share them with your friends. Welcome to the program. Amir. Thanks, Jason. Thank you for having me, man. I'm very excited about this. Well you are In a category.

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